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DJ Blaze Set List Saturday Jan 24th 2015

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015 by akadjblaze, posted in New DJ Content, Set Lists

So this set list even has some audio to accompany it! Yeah I decided to record the first part of it since it was a very slow night, so ended up playing a ‘house’ set to begin with, thou after 40mins in, it picked up really quickly so switched from chill mode to party mode and stopped recording (wanted a nice house set on file) Also didn’t even play a hip hop set that night so kinda why the numbers of tracks are down from my normal

1. Soul Searcher – Can’t get enough

2. Syn Cole – Miami 82 (Avicii Edit)

3. Dzeko & Torres – Steel Drums

4. Chromeo – Jealous (Solidisco Rmx)

5. Solidisco Ft. Skyy – Top of the World

6. Ariana Grande – Love Me Harder (Martini Crew Remix)

7. Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding – Outside (DJ Max-wave Rmx)

8. Ariana Grande – Break Free (Zedd & Jon Electra Rmx)

9. Mariah Carey Ft Wale – You Don’t Know What (Rightside & Mark Di Meo Rmx)

10. Solidisco – Work Your Body

11. Fonda Rae – Over Like a Fat Rat (Jazz N Groove Classic Mix)

12. Alessandro Viale Ft. Vaanya Diva – Deeper (Morris Corti Rmx)

13. Justin Timberlake – Sexyback (Ultimix)

14. Robin Thicke Ft. Pharrell – Blurred Lines (Justin Sane Rmx)

15. Bruno Mars – Treasure (Cosmic Dawn Rmx)

16. Far East Movement – Rocketeer (DJ Kue Rmx)

17. DJ Cassidy – Calling All Hearts (Frankie Knuckles Rmx)

18. Daft Punk – Lucky (Starjack Hype Rmx)

19. Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk (Billy Beats Rmx)

20. Michael Jackson – Love Never Felt So Good (Fedde Le Grand Rmx)

21. Rave Radio Ft Chris Willis, Reece Low – Feel The Indigo Love (Chris Royal Rmx)

22. Icona Pop – Just Another Night (Solid Disco Rmx)

23. Mariah Carey – You’re Mine (JS Rmx)

24. Charli Xcx – Boom Clap (Young Bombs Rmx)

25. Harwell Ft Luciana – Arcadia (Merzo Rmx)

26. BK Duke & Shcedule 1 Ft. Jake Pains – Get Messy

27. DJ Bl3nd, Ferry & Crispy Crunch – Side to Side

28. Nicki Minaj – Anaconda (Mark Ianni Bootleg)

29. Flo Rida – Freaking Out

30. T-ara – Sugar Free (Ferry Rmx)

31. Joel Fletcher & Savage – Swing (Combo! Rmx)

32. Joel Fletcher – Afterdark (Rmx)

33. Reece Low – Monk Funk

34. FBTA Ft. Crispy Crunch – ZZang ZZang Man

35. TJR – Ass Hypnotized

36. Timmy Trumpet & Savage – Freaks

37. MAKJ – Lets Get Fucked Up

38. Bombs Away – Baseline Maniacs (Ferry Rmx)

39. Showtek – Bouncer

40. Play-N-Skillz – Literally I Can’t

41. Steve Aoki – Rage The Night Away (Dopeztb Trap Edit)

42. Daddy Yankee – Lovumba

43. Wisin Y Yandel – Also Me Gusta De Ti

44. Don Omar – Danza Kuduro

45. Daddy Yankee – Limbo

46. Michel Telo – Ai Se Eu Te Pego

47. Sean Kingston – Fire Burning

48. Don Omar – Zumba

49. Pitbull – Calle Ocho

50. Beyonce – Run the World

51. Rihanna – S&M

52. 2NE1 – Can’t Nobody

53. GD & TOP Ft. 2NE1 – Oh Yeah

54. Usher – DJ Got Us Falling In Love (Hypercrush)

55. Redfoo – I’ll Award You With My Body

56. David guetta – Play Hard

57. Justice Crew – Everybody

58. Usher – Scream (Seamus Edit)

59. Hardwell Vs Krewella – Apollo Alive

60. Ferry – Feel the Vibe

DJ Blaze Set 7: Smooth Grooves

October 21, 2014 by akadjblaze, posted in New DJ Content

So as part of my collaboration set with Madholic, I put together this short mixset of the kind of music I reall enjoy playing and it is the kind of music that I have made a name for myself playing over here, so here it is again, enjoy 😀

Set List

1. Ladies Anthem Intro – Crooklyn Clan

2. Weekend thing – Koffee Brown Feat B-12

3. What’s love got to do with it – Warren G Feat. Adina Howard

4. Straighten It Out – Pete Rock & CL Smooth

5. Loungin’ – LL Cool J

6. Everything I Do – Soul 4 Real

7. Steppin’ out – Big Gipp

8. “I’m In Luv” – Joe

9. Moving Up – PM Dawn

10. Do Your Thing – Next

11. Put Me Down – Donell Jones

12. All About You – 2 Pac Feat Nate Dogg & Snoop Dogg

13. Just In Case – JAHEIM

14. “Like A DJ” – JAHEIM

15. DJ Don’t – Gerald Levert

16. Whatever – Ideal feat. Lil Mo

17. ‘Throw It Up’ – Naughty By Nature Feat Tah G Ali

18. HAT 2 DA BACK – TLC

19. Lets Get Naked – Highland Place Mobsters

20. I Want Her – Keith Sweat

Serato + ME = Winning!

February 13, 2014March 9, 2014 by akadjblaze, posted in A day in the Life

Since my long overdue upgrade to using ME as my video plugin, I have now been using it for a few months and I thought it would be prudent to post up a quick overview of the program, what I like about it and also my screen layout for people (mostly DJs) to look over and get an idea of the work flow, so here is the basic layout

So, ignoring the Latest Import Folder being completely un-organised, this is my basic screen, Serato in the back ground, and ME on top. As you can see it is relatively easy to make ME fit over top of a normal Serato Layout since everything can be freely moved around the screen

This one shows the Sequencer options which is one of the best things ever! I really wish Serato would make a built in Sequencer to use with like cue points and samples etc… But the sequencer in ME is very powerful, allowing you to use multiple fx to trigger on beat (similar layout to fruity loops) and to create different sequences you can save and trigger at will

For control of everything within Serato I use dicers, for ME I use a midi/usb connector to the mixer and I also use TouchOSC on my iPad to control both Serato and ME

Here is my TouchOSC layout, its a work in progress as I am adjusting it to suit my play style but its almost finished!

So, since switching to ME instead of using Serato Video for my video DJn (mostly at Bar Fly) there is some noticeable differences that I like and loving

1. ME outputs videos at a much higher higher quality

2. ME is adjustable so you can move it around and show or hide windows and is still fully integrated with Serato

3. The Sequencer! This just kicks serious ass! And really allows you to focus on other things rather than trying to mess around with fx etc

That about sums it up, there is differences with fx and transitions but thats not really a big issue since they both come stocked with a lot of options, some different, some the same. There wasn’t much of a learning curve as its pretty simple to use, just a little messing around at first while you get use to it but thats to be expected and once I upgraded to Mavericks OS it has been running very smoothly with no problems. Overall ME is a great product, I just wish Serato would either merge ME fully into their system or sort their shit out and put some more development work into their own Serato Video Program as it has had very little change since its original release, so ME is just really blowing them out of the water.

Chur.

Video DJn Prep Work

February 11, 2014March 9, 2014 by akadjblaze, posted in A day in the Life

So, for those who might be interested what I do with a lot of my time, quite a bit of it is obviously geared towards DJn and sorting thru the mountains of music available out there and trying to find the right mix or making the right mix of a song to suit my needs. While this is standard for most DJs, things are a little more harder for me because I also do Video DJn

(basically I have the video playing at the same time as the song, for those who don’t know, It requires the use of mp4 video files and what ever I do with the audio it is also shown with the video like loops, scratch, cue etc)

As you can imagine finding music videos is hard in itself, finding high quality ones is even harder and then finding videos with an intro or that are practical for a club is well yeah, hard! So I spend a lot of time doing my own video edits, some are just simple edits like making an intro for a track

or replacing the audio from a video track with a higher quality audio file while other edits can take a lot longer to make depending on what I want to achieve (like adding in remixed intros etc)

While I am pretty good at this process now and it really doesn’t take me long anymore at all to bang out a simple edit, the time consuming part is often waiting for the conversion process to finish which can take anywhere from 10mins to over an hour depending on the video quality.

Then there is some of the Video mixes I do, these take longer, mainly because I like things being a certain way so I tend to spend a lot of time first re-doing the sound recordings

and then editing the video transitions, so the work screen can often look a little something like this

and can be a longer process, but at least the finished product is usually very good (at least I think)

http://vimeo.com/43451987 Or you can see for yourself here 🙂

The program you see is Sony Vegas HD Platinum 10.0, I have been using Vegas for years and is a really easy to use and basic but effective program, however it is time to start learning on some other platforms as well so next posts will be my journey into learning how to use Final Cut X and Logic Pro

Chur!